A Field Guide - SANParks

Loxostylis alata

Family: Common Name(s): L ox o s t y l i s , Ta r wo o d , Tierhout, Teerhout, isiBara.Flowering Time: Jan, Sep, Oct, Nov, DecVegetation Type: EcotoneHabitat: Forest margins.

ANACARDIACEAE

A Field Guide

Critically EndangeredEndangered Vulnerable Near Threatened RareDecliningData Deficient

Cullumia cirsioides

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Sandstone slopes.

ASTERACEAE

Ilex mitis var. mitisFamily: Common Name(s): Cape holly, Wild holly, Without, isiDumoVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Along rivers and streams in forest and thickets. From sea level to inland mountain slopes.

AQUIFOLIACEAE

Curtisia dentataFamily: Common Name(s): Assegai, Assegaai, umGxinaVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Evergreen forest

CORNACEAE

Elaeodendron croceum

Family: Common Name(s): Common /

Red SaffronwoodVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Margins of coastal and Montane forests.

CELASTRACEAE

Cyathea capensisvar. capensisFamily: Common Name(s): Common tree fern, Boomvaring, isiHihiVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Forest. Grows near water.

CYATHEACEAE

Dioscorea mundii

Family: Common Name(s): HottentotsbroodVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Coastal forest on fixed dunes and edges of afromontane forest.

DIOSCOREACEAE

Erica inconstans

Family:Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Mountain slopes. 500-1000 m.

ERICACEAE

Erica glandulosasubsp. fourcadeiFamily: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Coastal

fynbos.

ERICACEAE

Erica viridescens

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Hills to middle slopes of Outeniqua mountain.

ERICACEAEEN

CR

VU

NT

NT

VU

VU

DD

VU

DEC

DEC

DEC

DEC

DEC

NTDD

RARE

Boophone disticha

Family: Common Name(s): Sore-eye flower,

SeeroogblomVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Dry sandy of rocky areas in fynbos.

AMARYLLIDACEAE

DEC

Gasteria politaFamily:Vegetation Type: Thicket, FynbosHabitat: Moist, shady kloofs, along streams, Semi-exposed shrub forest on upper slopes of steep embarkments and outcrops in Afro-temperate forest and rocky fynbos areas. Not on the coast.

ASPHODELACEAE

CR

Erica macrophylla

Family: Vegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Damp places in coastal forest.

ERICACEAE

RARE

Psoralea trullata

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Marshy places in mountain fynbos.

FABACEAE

RARE

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Eulophia speciosa

Family: Vegetation Type: ThicketHabitat: Occupies various habitats including sand dunes, bushveld, thornveld and mountain grasslands.

ORCHIDACEAE

Disa hallackii

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Lowland fynbos on sandy flats, s tab i l i sed dunes and coasta l rock promontories.

ORCHIDACEAE

Leucadendron conicum

Mimetes splendidus

Family: Common Name(s): G a r d e n r o u t e

conebush, VaaltolbosVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Riverine habitat in Sandstone Fynbos

PROTEACEAE

Family:Common Name(s): Pagoda, PragstompieVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Sandstone Fynbos, usually on wet south-facing slopes.

PROTEACEAE

Gladiolus vaginatus

Family: Vegetation Type: F y n b o s a n d

renosterveld. Habitat: Limestone and clay

loam soil.

IRIDACEAE

Gladiolus huttoniiFamily:Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Sandy loam or clay or on the moderately fertile soils derived form the Witteberg slopes mostly confined to the coastal plain.

IRIDACEAE

Gladiolus sempervirens

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Seeps on sandstone slopes.

IRIDACEAE

Ruschia duthiae

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Garden route shale fynbos.

MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE

Acrolophia barbata

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Mesic fynbos from sea level to 750m.

ORCHIDACEAE

Oxalis pendulifolia

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Coastal fynbos

OXALIDACEAE

Ocotea bullataFamily: Common Name(s): Stinkwood, black stinkwood, Cape laurel, stinkhout, swartstinkhout, umNukana, umHlungulu, umNukaVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Wet south slopes in Sandstone Fynbos.

LAURACEAE

Mimetes pauciflorus

Family: Common Name(s): T h re e - f l owe re d pagoda, Slanke vlambosVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Most prominent in South Outeniqua Sandstone Fynbos.

PROTEACEAE

Leucadendronuliginosum subsp. glabratumFamily: Common Name(s): Tsitsikamma conebushVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Tsitsikamma

Sandstone Fynbos

PROTEACEAE

Faurea macnaughtonii

Family:Common Name(s): TerblansVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Deep forest

PROTEACEAE

Acmadenia alternifoliaFamily: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Coastal headlands and steep slopes, exposed positions on dry cliffs near the coast from Knysna to Plettenberg Bay.

RUTACEAE

EN

RARE

RARE

EN

EN

EN

EN

VU

NT

EN

DEC

VU

VU

VU

RARE

Satyrium princeps

Family: Vegetation Type: Fynbos, coastal

dunesHabitat: Grassy fynbos, plains and slopes.

ORCHIDACEAE

VU

Gnidia chrysophyllaFamily: Flowering Time: June - SeptVegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Coastal flats

THYMELAEACEAE

VU

Family: Common Name(s): C a p e b e e c h , Boekenhout, IsiQwane, isiQalaba-sehlathiVegetation Type: ForestHabitat: Coastal, swamp and mountain forest, on forest margins and bush clumps, often in damp areas from coast to mountains.

MYRSINACEAE

Rapanea melanophloeos

DEC

Drimia elata

Family: Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Dryish fynbos,

sandy and clay soils

HYACINTHACEAE

DD

Thesium fimbriatum

Family:Vegetation Type: FynbosHabitat: Moist slopes

SAPINDACEAE

DD